Main events in 1918 when Chadwick Weir was founded

International

February 14 – Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, date skips to from February 1 to February 14.

March 1 – Birth of Joao Goulart, former President of Brazil.

March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.

March 25 – Death of Claude Debussy, French composer.

April 22 – Death of Manfred von Richthofen, “Red Baron”, German World War I pilot.

April 28 – Death of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

July 17 – RMS Carpathia, the rescue ship of the RMS Titanic, is sunk off the coast of Ireland by the Underseeboat 55.

August – “Spanish flu” Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (almost twice as many as died during the war).

October 5 – Death of Roland Garros, French Pilot (shot down).

October 25 – The Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska, 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.

November 3 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.

November 11 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

November 12 – Austria becomes a republic.

November 14 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.

November 16 – Hungarian People’s Republic declared.

December 1 – Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains in personal union with the king of Denmark who also becomes king of Iceland.